Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1200

A little Western Bop with Al Terry performing No Shrimp Today. 

Here's some info on Terry: b. Allison Joseph Theriot, 14 January 1922, Kaplan, Louisiana, USA, d. 23 November 1985, USA. An early country music performer, singer and guitarist Terry was among the first artists to develop the rockabilly sound. He made an appearance at the age of 13 on radio KVOL and formed his first band while still in high school. After graduation he spent a period in Beaumont, Texas to learn about radio broadcasting with KRIC. Terry’s best-known recording is the self-penned 1954 Cajun hit ‘Good Deal, Lucille’, which often appears on compilations. In 1955 Country & Western Jamboree magazine voted Terry number 1, above Elvis Presley, in their New Male Country Singer category. In the mid-50s he was a featured guest on The Louisiana Hayride. Among artists with whom Terry worked was Jimmy C. Newman, appearing in several recordings in the late 40s/early 50s. Terry also worked as a disc jockey on KROF radio in Abbeville, Louisiana. 

http://youtu.be/MRdYJ7_WiFs

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1199

Ranch Radio will feature rockabilly this week and here's the Miller Brothers with Patty Cake Man.  A short bio of the group from hillbillymusic.com

 The Miller Brothers started singing in front of audiences as far back as when they were in grade school - at school functions and civic events. On the weekends, they would at dances and with other show groups. The 1955 version of The Miller Brothers group had been together sine 1940 and were continually doing the proverbial one-night stands. During the World War II period of 1943 and 1946, the group got split up a bit by serving in the military. For much of the early part of their career, they were playing mainly in Texas and southern Oklahoma. But in 1950, they decided to branch out a bit and started appearing in places such as New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and occasionally over to Louisiana and Mississippi. Leon Miller was the leader of the group, and was an instrumentalist and composer, too. In high school, he was a concertmaster of his junior and senior year orchestras. Lee Miller helped Leon organize the group and handled a lot of the business arrangements. The group achieved a fair bit of fame in the mid-1950s. Billboard magazine named them the number 3 band in 1956. Downbeat magazine awarded them the number 4 spot in their new big bands contest. And they also got 29% of the vote as one of the most promising up and coming band in a Cash Box magazine survey. In Texas, they were rated the top Lone Star unit. In addition to their dance music, they also put on a bit of a floor show, trying to give their fans a bit entertainment for their admission price. The band also owned their own place to play when they weren't making appearances elsewhere - the MB Corral in Wichita Falls, Texas. It was able to seat 1,000 folks and had a roomy dance floor. The Miller Brothers did a radio show that aired twice a day over KFDX out of Wichita Falls, Texas. They also recorded for the 4 Star record label. Group members included:

    Leon Miller
    Lee Miller
    Sam Miller
    Bill Jourdan
    Madge Suttee
    Dutch Ingram
    Bill Taylor
    Dale Wilson

http://youtu.be/OtWWmhxQN3A

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1198

Its Swingin' Monday on Ranch Radio and here's Brother Al Stricklin pounding out Live Bait.  Here's some info on Stricklin:  Artist Biography by Linda Seida

Al Stricklin was a jazz pianist whose lively playing helped give Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys the band's unique western swing flavor. Ironically, when Stricklin first heard Wills play the fiddle during an audition at a radio station where Stricklin was in charge of hiring, he thought Wills' routine was more of a comedy act than any serious musical offering. It wasn't long before Stricklin's opinion changed and he became a key part of the Texas Playboys' lineup, staying with the band from 1935 through 1942. He played piano on several hundred of the group's recordings, including Wills' nationwide hit in 1940, "New San Antonio Rose."  The piano player was born Alton Meeks Stricklin in 1908 in Antioch, TX. He never had the benefit of music lessons, and has said that his major inspiration was jazz great Earl "Fatha" Hines. When he was about four or five years old, Stricklin started teaching himself how to play with his father, who was a fiddler. By the time he left high school and headed to Weatherford Junior College in 1927, and later Baylor University, the self-taught pianist was teaching others how to play to help pay for his schooling...To help support his family, he took work in 1930 at Fort Worth's KFJZ radio station, where he later auditioned Wills. Before joining the Texas Playboys, Stricklin also was employed as an elementary school teacher and principal in Island Grove, TX, and later he played with the Hi Flyers dance band back in Fort Worth. When Wills heard him play at a club called the Cinderella Roof in 1935, he lured Stricklin to the Texas Playboys with a job that paid $30 weekly. 

http://youtu.be/NTtJ2sy3-K8

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1197

Ranch Radio will wind up our 78s Week with Rockin' On The Waves by the Brown's Ferry Four.  Here's a short bio of the group and their shifting makeup.

The original group was founded at WLW Cincinnati in June 1943, and went on to achieve legendary status as one of the finest quartets to have recorded country gospel music. The founding members, all active performers and following other careers as well as singing with the group, were Grandpa Jones, Merle Travis and the Delmore Brothers (Alton and Rabon). They took their name from the Delmores’ hit song of the time, ‘Brown’s Ferry Blues’. They commenced a regular half-hour daily spot, with Alton singing lead, Rabon tenor, Jones baritone and Travis bass, and their fine harmonies quickly established them with the station’s listeners. Unfortunately, military service for Travis, Jones and Alton Delmore saw the break-up of the original four. The station kept the name and the programme, entering the early 50s with other singers. In March 1946, the four original members had resumed their careers but with Travis in California, the Delmores in Memphis and Jones in Nashville, they never resumed their WLW appearances. However, when all were in California for recordings, Sydney Nathan of King Records decided to record some of the gospel numbers that they had popularized, the first two being ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’ and ‘Just A Little Talk With Jesus’. The recordings proved popular and the following year, Nathan flew all four to Hollywood for further recordings. A change in line-up was enforced when Travis became a Capitol recording artist and Red Foley replaced him on 1947 recordings, which produced their noted ‘I’ll See You In The Morning’. In 1948, the national ban on all recordings saw the Delmores incorporate a version of the group within their stage act, with Wayne Raney and Lonnie Glosson replacing Jones and Foley. In the early 50s, Red Turner and Clyde Moody also sang with the Delmores. In 1956, Alton Delmore organized a group to record for Acme. In 1965, Grandpa Jones recordedGrandpa Jones Remembers The Brown’s Ferry Four for Monument, which featured himself, Merle Travis, Red Rector and Ramona Jones. In the early 80s, Jones with Roy Clark, Buck Owens and Kenny Price recreated the sound of the original group, recording an album as the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet, for the label owned by the popular Hee Haw television programme, on which they also appeared. The original four’s recordings enjoyed several reissues, going from 78s to 45s, a series of three EPs in 1957 and eventually to albums with reissues on Starday and Pine Mountain.


http://youtu.be/riGkXZmjROQ

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1196

78s Week on Ranch Radio and here's Charlie Adams & The Lone Star Playboys performing If A Beer Bottle Had A Nipple On It.

http://youtu.be/ovvCEEPWT_I

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1195

Its 78s Week on Ranch Radio.  Today's selection is the old fiddle tune Paddy On The Turnpike done up just right by Andy Hokum & His Pals Of The West.

http://youtu.be/YJU3KY0My1I

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1194

More 78s from Ranch Radio and today we bring you some old time humor.  First up is Sweet William & Bad Bill in New York, and then through some cowboy electronic wizardry, Sweet William & Bad Bill Still in New York. The label says its by William Le Maire and John Swor.  The UCSB library says the sides were recorded on 10/17/27. 

http://youtu.be/0X2ZGzre9xw

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1193

Ranch Radio will be dustin' off some 78s this week.  First selection is March Of The Roses by Dick Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers.  Here's a short bio:  Organized by Dick Hartman in the late 1920s, the Tennessee Ramblers transferred to Charlotte from Rochester, New York in 1934 under the sponsorship of Crazy Water Crystals. At that time, the band featured Hartman, "Horse Thief Harry" Blair, Kenneth "Pappy" Wolfe, Jack Gillette and native North Carolinian Cecil Campbell. The ensemble quickly established themselves as WBT's most popular stringband, receiving over one hundred thousand pieces of fan mail by the end of their first seven months of broadcasting here. After a stint of about a year at WBT, the Ramblers moved on to Atlanta to work at stations WSB and WGST. They returned to Charlotte the following year to perform again on WBT for the Southern Radio Corporation. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Ramblers were in and out of Charlotte, visiting Pittsburgh, Cincinatti, and Louisville for radio work. (Dick Hartman left the band in 1937.) Also during this period the group was beckoned to Hollywood to make several successful western films with cowboy singing stars such as Gene Autry and Tex Ritter. Titles included Ride Ranger Ride, Ridin' the Cherokee Trail, Swing Your Partner, with Dale Evans and Oh My Darling Clementine, featuring a young Roy Acuff. In the mid-1940s, Cecil Campbell took the reins of the band and led various organizations of the Tennessee Ramblers up into the 1970s.

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Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1192

Its Swingin' Monday on Ranch Radio and our feature today is Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers - Barn Dance Rag.  The tune was recorded in San Antonio on Aug. 12, 1935 and released as Bluebird B-6177.

http://youtu.be/DMuNqWFIbI0

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1191

Its Swingin' Monday and here is "Who Told You" by Woody Pines on the Rabbits Motel CD.  Kind of a cross between swing and rockabilly, with a slight blues touch.

http://youtu.be/hQP-ZLdgUoA

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1190

The gospel tune on Ranch Radio today is "Deed We Do", a 1947 recording by the Prairie Ramblers.  The song is on their The Oregon Trail CD. 

http://youtu.be/gcuyx6qs8x0

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1189

Ranch Radio brings you Happy Perryman & His Happy-Go-Lucky Mountaineers performing "There's A Palace Down In Dallas".  Recorded in Hollywood on Nov. 30, 1944.

http://youtu.be/XJEvMFVzuP8

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1188

Ranch Radio's tune today is Lady's Man by Hank Snow.  Recorded in 1952 for RCA.

http://youtu.be/ms1DGx_lxWc

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1187

From his 1995 CD "The Lost Fiddler" here is Art Stamper performing The Long Fork Of Buckhorn.  Stamper passed away in 2005.  Here's a short bio.

 Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne

Art Stamper is a classic Kentucky fiddler and a giant in traditional mountain music and the bluegrass style that evolved from it. When the old-time music heavy soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? became a hit, there was speculation that the "Art" in the title might be Art Stamper, veteran of the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, and countless classic bluegrass recording sessions. When Stamper was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2000, the bluegrass community poured out for a subsequent benefit concert, the lineup of the artists on the roster like flashing one's eyes across the spines of the albums on a bluegrass collector's shelf. His health problems coincided with yet another bloom in his career, as the new millennium also marked the release of one his most praised albums to date, Goodbye Girls, I'm Going to Boston, the title-track a programming favorite on several prominent radio shows devoted to this genre. Fiddlers and classical violinists alike can sometimes be accused of winning audiences over by making them submit to mind-numbing displays of technical virtuosity, yet Stamper can never be accused of this artistic fault. His fans love him for his superb grasp of very basic musical issues: a firm and inventive grasp of melody, heartfelt sincerity, and a constant sense of enjoyment in what he is doing. All the same, a look back at his career does reveal that he was somewhat swept away by the tides of technical one-upmanship that temporarily flooded the bluegrass scene as it moved into the progressive or newgrass stage. His recordings from this period are still loaded with feeling, however, especially when he matches licks with banjo master J.D. Crowe on the superb 1982 County release The Lost Fiddler. Even though it might have been hard for a listener to really notice, the fiddler eventually felt that he was lost, drifting away from his Kentucky roots toward an anonymous picking paradise. He began emphasizing a return to his homeground of making music, resulting in music what bluegrass fans apparently find overwhelmingly beautiful. He joined the Stanley Brothers' band at a crucial time in country music history, as the 1952 entrance of fiddler and mandolinist Jim Williams into the band is considered the end of a transition between the old-time string band sound and what would come to be regarded as a bluegrass instrumental lineup. Stamper has received the Best Old Time Fiddlers award three years in a row at the SPGMA bluegrass awards in Nashville. Since the '80s, he has also been active as a teacher, including a regular residency at the Blackwell Farm Fiddle Camp in Niangua, MO.

http://youtu.be/UWtGfZPF1i8

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1186

Ranch Radio is craving a little bluegrass this morning, so here are Bill Clifton & The Dixie Mtn. Boys with their 1958 recording of the A.P. Carter song Just Another Broken Heart.

http://youtu.be/V3ZpuBXxpJw

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1185

Its Swingin' Monday on Ranch Radio and we have one for the renowned Cowboy artist, Etienne Etcheverry, aka The Crayola Cowboy.  Here's Django Reinhardt, with Stephane Grappelli and Eddie South performing their 1937 recording of Dinah. 

http://youtu.be/vIW-NJYMecI

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1184

Ranch Radio's gospel tune this morning is George Jones' 1966 recording of Old Brush Arbors.

http://youtu.be/QGgvJFuIwnk

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1183

To close out Country Classics Week on Ranch Radio we head to the 70s and here's Charley Pride's 1970 recording of Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone.

http://youtu.be/lSAdyJwO3yA

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1182

Ranch Radio continues with Country Classics and today we move to the 60s.  Here's the #1 song from 1961:  Leroy Van Dyke - Walk On By

http://youtu.be/LONNP1SGW3c

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1181

We continue with Country Classics Week on Ranch Radio.  Yesterday we had a classic from the '40s, so today we'll move to the 50s.  Here is Webb Pierce with his 1954 recording of Slowly.  That was a good year for Pierce, who had three songs in the top ten. 

http://youtu.be/vllGOH3Tvt8